Processor would be twice as fast as any now out, company CEO says

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Mobile phone makers are scrambling to come up with a response to Apple's iPhone 4, which was just announced Monday and it looks like Motorola may have come up with a pretty good one: a 2 gigahertz smart phone by the end of the year.

Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola's consumer business and mobile devices division, confirmed that the company will have a 2GHz smart phone by the end of the year. Jha spoke at the Executives Club of Chicago on Wednesday — at the same event where, last year, Steve Ballmer mentioned Microsoft's plans for "Project Natal."

Jha also spoke about the mobile devices industry, and predicted that within a few years most corporations will give their employees smart phones instead of notebooks.

He did not elaborate any further on the upcoming 2 GHz smartphone, though an anonymous Motorola executive told Conceivably Tech that the new phone will "incorporate everything that is technologically possible in a smart phone today."

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